{"id":13062,"date":"2025-05-22T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/?p=13062"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:22:16","slug":"f1-kimi-antonelli-rejected-by-ferrari-hes-too-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/en\/formula-1\/f1-kimi-antonelli-rejected-by-ferrari-hes-too-young-13062","title":{"rendered":"F1 | Kimi Antonelli rejected by Ferrari: &#8220;He&#8217;s too young&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrea Kimi Antonelli races in Formula 1 with <a href=\"https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/en\/tag\/mercedes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mercedes<\/a>, but if 11 years ago <strong>he had not been rejected by Maurizio Arrivabene<\/strong>, he could be driving for Scuderia Ferrari today. Here is how the story of the young man from Bologna unfolded, as told by his father Marco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-andrea-kimi-antonelli-pilota-ferrari-scartato-a-11-anni\">Andrea Kimi Antonelli a Ferrari driver? Rejected at 11 years old<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An <strong>Italian driver hasn&#8217;t been seen at Ferrari for many years<\/strong>. Great names like Alberto Ascari and Michele Alboreto helped make the tricolor magical on the Prancing Horse crest, and we must not forget Ivan Capelli in the &#8217;92 season. Since then, there has been a coming and going of Italians in Formula 1, but for Ferrari only as reserve drivers (for example, Antonio Giovinazzi and Giancarlo Fisichella). The Scuderia has relied on foreign drivers who\u2014let&#8217;s be clear\u2014if you decide to put someone like Michael Schumacher or Fernando Alonso in your car instead of an Italian driver <em>&#8220;who isn&#8217;t performing,&#8221;<\/em> there&#8217;s nothing to object to; quite the opposite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" src=\"https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/michele-alboreto-pilota-italiano-f1-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"Italian driver at Ferrari, Michele Alboreto during the European GP\" class=\"wp-image-5488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/michele-alboreto-pilota-italiano-f1-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/michele-alboreto-pilota-italiano-f1-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/michele-alboreto-pilota-italiano-f1-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/michele-alboreto-pilota-italiano-f1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Michele Alboreto during the European GP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it hurts the hearts of the <em>Tifosi<\/em> to see a very young and talented Italian driver (from Bologna, no less) named <strong>Andrea Kimi Antonelli<\/strong> representing your fierce rival on the track: Mercedes. Naturally, the association of an Italian driver with an Italian team comes spontaneously, but Kimi has been &#8220;owned&#8221; by Mercedes since he was 11, and it must be said that Ferrari let him slip away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The revelation came directly from Kimi&#8217;s father, Marco, interviewed by Leo Turrini (the full interview can be found in<em>&nbsp;Il Resto del Carlino<\/em>):<em>&nbsp;\u201cAndrea did go to Ferrari<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 Marco Antonelli recounted \u2014 <em>he was summoned as a karting prospect. He had been noticed by Massimo Rivola, then head of the Ferrari Driver Academy. Andrea was 11 years old; he even tried the simulator\u2014not the one reserved for F1 drivers, but the one for the academy youth. Everything was in order, except that&nbsp;<strong>Maurizio Arrivabene<\/strong>, who at the time also led the racing department,&nbsp;<strong>said that Andrea was too young<\/strong>. Pochi mesi dopo ci contatt\u00f2 la Mercedes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kimi-antonelli-gp-imola-3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Andrea Kimi Antonelli in love with his Mercedes W16\" class=\"wp-image-5246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kimi-antonelli-gp-imola-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kimi-antonelli-gp-imola-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kimi-antonelli-gp-imola-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kimi-antonelli-gp-imola-3-390x220.jpg 390w, https:\/\/f1.newsauto.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kimi-antonelli-gp-imola-3.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andrea Kimi Antonelli in love with his Mercedes W16<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seems that since then\u2014seeing the splendid successes in the feeder series and the excellent season the young Antonelli is having in Formula 1\u2014<strong>Ferrari has learned from its mistakes<\/strong>. Many prospects have passed through the Ferrari Driver Academy and are still active, such as <strong>Dino Beganovic <\/strong>(Formula 2 driver with Hitech TGR),<strong> Oliver Bearman<\/strong> (now an F1 driver with Haas), the Brazilian Rafael Camara (currently leading the Formula 3 championship with Trident), and the fierce <strong>Maya Weug <\/strong>and <strong>Aurelia Nobels<\/strong> (both in F1 Academy). But it is especially in the world of karting that the FDA has chosen to focus, signing the very young prospect named <strong>Filippo Sala<\/strong>. Is this a sign of some kind of redemption?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Kimi Antonelli&#8217;s father reveals how Ferrari rejected the young talent at age 11 because he was &#8220;too young,&#8221; leading him to join Mercedes instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13060,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,168,183],"tags":[303,170,191,212],"class_list":["post-13062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1-gp-news","category-formula-1","category-drivers","tag-andrea-kimi-antonelli","tag-f1-2025-season","tag-mercedes","tag-scuderia-ferrari-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>F1 | Kimi 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